Perez Hilton tweeted the news at about 11:00 AM ET that last night's LAA starting pitch Nick Adenhart died this morning in a car accident in Fullerton, California. A family member confirmed the story. Three people were killed and another person was seriously injured.

Authorities are blaming the three-vehicle accident on a motorist in a mini-van who ran a red light at East Orangethorpe Avenue and South Lemon Street.

Authorities say the driver of the van fled the scene, was later captured and charged with felony hit-and-run.

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Back in June, I posted about "Playing for Peanuts":

While trying to figure out how the heck Jon Zeringue spells his name (for my TLAS Game post), I came across Playing for Peanuts, a blog about a television show about a team (follow?), the South Georgia Peanuts, in the first (and quite likely, only) season in the South Coast League. After being released from the Diamondbacks and signing with the A's, Jon played 26 games under Wally Backman for the Peanuts.

Like the players in the series, this show and DVD had many struggles. A little summary of the events Playing for Peanuts went through:
1. The show began airing on eight regional networks in May.
2. SportsNet New York refused to do any promoting of Playing for Peanuts.
3. John Fitzgerald, the producer, director, and DVD distribution department, decided to pull the series from all markets in late July.
4. The Chicago market still wanted to air the series, so in October, the show returned to SportsNet Chicago.
5. Chicago aired the ten 30-minutes episodes, but won't re-run the series because they aren't interested in second run programming.
6. John now feels like the show is dead to television.

It's a long, sad story. You can read more at the Peanuts Blog, and at the new Peanuts site at MVN.

To read up on some of the players, production news, etc., you can also visit the Peanuts myspace, you know, if that's your sort of thing.

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I'm filling in for your lovely QOTM host Poppy, who couldn't be here this month. But I'm really just a cheap, knockoff sugar substitute when you just want the real stuff.

Sadly, as the 2008 Oakland A's season ends, so does another year of QOTM. Never fear lovely readers, unless something terrible happens (I'm talking about a Ryan-Dale-Travis trade to the Pirates), QOTM will be back next year around the time pitchers and catchers report.

Stay strong. Stay funny.

To the quotes!

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No A's game today, folks. No A's game until... well, I can't think about that right now. To the links!

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It started so innocently.

Pam said on Sep 19, 2008 11:37 PM EDT:

Ok, the season's almost over.

Anyone figure out what the music is in this 100% baseball commercial? I love it. I must have it.

I agreed with her.

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Warning before we go: This will probably get out of hand. Boys, you've been warned.

I hope AN's server doesn't melt.

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Our boys have the day off. We'll need something to do. Enter me, killing time.

I'll put the iTunes crap up top in case you want to skip the photos.

If you want to share any of your Tunes, I copied my songs to Excel, then uploaded them to Google Docs. Please share with the group if you have an easier way. KTHNX.

Jennifer's iTunes Playlist

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Guess the Player game!

Each small photo is of a past or present A's player. You have to decide who it is. Click on the thumbnail for the complete photo answer.

Don't scroll down to the comments if you don't want spoiled!

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Weeks like this would make me cry if they weren't so gosh darn fun. I love seeing my boys live, I don't care how much suckatude they display. I really miss them once they leave town. :(

To the crappy photos!

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WARNING: WE ARE LIVE BLOGGING THE OLYMPICS! THIS WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!

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